Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[David Humphries]

Windy in the big smoke n'all, over the last 24 hrs........

 

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[David Humphries]

Leaves are off, but big lumps still coming down.........

 

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[RobArb]

Whoops!

 

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[David Humphries]

Whoops!

 

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Bit of gaffa tape, was it ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RobArb]

I blame all those roots!

 

Wasn't me gov:lol:

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Second, a large turkey oak came over on a small street, ganoderma lucidum (I think) present at base

 

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thats a resi, though the shear ball looks fairly intact, very wet ground also.

 

Resi is an aggressive blighter, would think on Cerris no chances

[RobArb]

thats a resi, though the shear ball looks fairly intact, very wet ground also.

 

Resi is an aggressive blighter, would think on Cerris no chances

 

Yeh think it got established that it was resi:biggrin:

 

I will hold my hands up and say initial gut instinct was resi, i even said to one of the lads.... but... i went on the fungi directory and got swayed by the images of resi looking nothing like this one here, looked more like lucidum:blushing:

 

Shoulda put me glasses on hey:lol:

 

Anyway, said to the woman who lived there when she asked what had caused it, that it was this bracket....

 

"What bracket she said"? Casually throwing the resi into the bushes, "The insurance will never know"

[Matthew Arnold]

A recent victim of the strong winds. The district council who own the site are paying us to do tree work but we plan on pulling this limb out with one of the work trucks after removing the branch wood. Two big lumps have already come out but we are leaving the breaks alone as it looks good on this willow and is a fine example of natural pollarding. It does have Ganoderma lipsense growing at the base and about 3 feet above the first main union where the two stems split so will keep an eye on it.

[David Humphries]

Is that big pine you've posted before Matthew?

 

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Is that big pine you've posted before Matthew?

 

 

 

 

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Yup. Its going to be monitored by the local TO's to see if the lean gets any worse. A camera was put inside a cavity to see the extent of it and it goes up about 10 feet. The base does look odd though. On the compression side the bark plates are very large but the tension side it looks almost Oak like with the ridges.